Jinxu Nu had originally been a merfolk who attained spiritual powers. Once, he encountered Iron Umbrella Daoist fishing for the Nine-Headed Divine Ao in the South Sea and startled the creature. In his fury, Iron Umbrella Daoist sealed Jinxu Nu inside a jar and sank him to the seabed.
Afterward, the Nine-Headed Divine Ao grew wary, and no matter what methods Iron Umbrella Daoist tried, he could no longer catch it. He therefore wanted revenge on Jinxu Nu.
On the seabed, Jinxu Nu was rescued by First Phoenix, the eldest palace mistress, who brought him into the palace. He opened the secret Heavenly Book manuals within the Golden Court Jade Pillars, and they cultivated them together. Later, Jinxu Nu harmonized Kan and Li and, through the transformative power of Heavenly One True Water, survived his final tribulation. He shed his hideously ugly, half-human, half-demon merfolk skin and became the exquisitely beautiful youth he was now.
Later, they encountered Iron Umbrella Daoist again atop Mount Song. Had the Two Elders of Mount Song not intervened, they would have been wiped out, scooped into Iron Umbrella Daoist's pot in one fell swoop.
Some years after that, one of Iron Umbrella Daoist's disciples joined others in setting fires outside the Purple Cloud Palace to boil the sea. A magical battle followed. Though the palace's side won, it was a hard-fought victory, and several flying swords left by the Golden Mother were destroyed, along with the Magic Treasure of Master Lianshan that they had obtained from Moon Island.
Now, seeing their old archenemy's Iron Umbrella here, they were like birds frightened by a bowstring, bringing out every powerful means at their disposal.
Third Phoenix stirred her dantian and spat out true essence. Forming hand seals with both hands, she sent her flying swords, the